Hi,
I did notice such dramatic slowness, even though I haven't measured it. I
had to migrate our old SVN repo to Git and I ended up using my Ubuntu
VirtualBox to do that. Much more convenient.
Setting up a VirtualBox is not that much trouble. If you're already
familiar with GNU/Linux. But hey, you're a programmer!
;-)
Eric
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:25:20 PM UTC-5, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:25:35 PM UTC+1, rupert THURNER wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> what is the reason, that msysgit used as subversion client is 10-15 times
>> slower as mercurial, used as svn client? just as an example the runtimes to
>> check for an update:
>>
>> $ time git svn rebase
>> Current branch master is up to date.
>>
>> real1m31.736s
>> user0m0.015s
>> sys 0m0.031s
>>
>> $ time hg pull -u
>> pulling from svn+https://svn
>> no changes found
>>
>> real0m7.684s
>> user0m0.015s
>> sys 0m0.000s
>>
>>
> Over a minute for just a svn rebase sounds awfully slow, even accounting
> for git-svn/msysgits rumored performance issues. Which Windows are you
> using? I see there are some issues with Windows 7:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2835775/msysgit-bash-is-horrendously-slow-in-windows-7
>
> Other usual suspects are virus scanners, encrypted filesystems, network
> filesystems.. You got any of these?
>
> You could gather up the relevant information (Git version, OS details,
> etc) and report it on the msysgit mailing list here:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/msysgit
>
> Coincidentially, the msysgit developers were discussing performance
> problems a couple of days ago (
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/msysgit/yy-yPNxaxgw/b9mX8qdrjNkJ) - so
> you're not the first to complain.
>
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